Essay On Interprofessional Collaboration

Enhancing Interprofessional Collaboration
Introduction
The Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaborative (CIHC) competencies defines interprofessional collaboration as “the partnership between a team of health care providers and a client in a participatory, collaborative and coordinated approach to shared decision-making around health and social issues” (2010, pp). To guide health care providers in achieving interprofessional collaboration Huron Perth Healthcare Alliance (HPHA) designed an interprofessional practice model (IPM). The HPHA IPM has four key domains; role clarity/scope of practice, interprofessional collaborative practice, professional development, and evidence informed practice.
This paper will explore how to enhance interprofessional competencies that result in greater collaboration at the point of care. An anonymized real life professional encounter is described in detail and used to depict issues seen with interprofessional collaboration. An in-depth analysis using the HPHA

Interprofessional care is defined as “the provision of comprehensive health services to patients by multiple health caregivers who work collaboratively to deliver quality care within and across settings” (HPHA Interprofessional Practice Model, 2010). With this model, multiple health care providers will write orders in the patients chart on any given day. The oncology physician will review the chart and provide an authorizing signature to carry out the order. In this one instance the oncologist complained to the nurse about other health professionals ordering tests that in her opinion were not needed, and that the area of concern they were ordering tests for fell within her scope of practice. If she were concerned, she would have ordered the test herself. The physician proceeded to look at who ordered the test, and mocked them for being an intern without proper